Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 20 March
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Join us at the Moat to hear new work from a line-up of writers exploring family, grief and the passage of time.
Join us over a drink at The Moat for our first Next Big Thing event for 2023, and celebrate and support new work from exciting writing talents. Paul Dalgarno revisits the past to hope for the future in A Country of Eternal Light; J.R. Burgmann’s debut novel Children of Tomorrow weaves climate fiction with a multi-generational family saga; Zoya Patel explores the power of the past and present to bond and disconnect us in Once a Stranger; More Than These Bones follows Bebe Backhouse’s journey through Blak queer identity, heartbreak and self-discovery; and Monique Nair maps family lineages through bodies of water in her Voiceworks piece, ‘Auto-Oceanography: A Lineage Between Bodies of Water’.
The Next Big Thing
The Next Big Thing takes place every month at the Moat and is a cherished Melbourne institution. It’s the place to be if you want to hear great emerging writers read from new and adventurous work.
Featuring
Bebe Oliver
Bebe Oliver is a Bardi Jawi award-winning author, poet and illustrator. As a leading advocate for Aboriginal advancement and self-determination, he is deeply committed to the empowerment and visibility of Aboriginal and ...
J.R. Burgmann
J.R. Burgmann is a British-Australian emerging writer and critic. He is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and received his PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies from Monash University, where he is based at the Monash ...
Paul Dalgarno
Paul Dalgarno is an author and journalist. He was deputy editor of The Conversation (Australia) and a senior writer and features editor at the Herald newspaper group (UK). He has written for The Guardian, Archer and ...
Monique Nair
Monique Nair is a Naarm based writer and editor of Indian-Italian-Polish heritage. She edits for Mascara Literary Review and is the co-editor of the journal's debut anthology Resilience published with Ultimo Press ...
Zoya Patel
Zoya Patel is the author of No Country Woman (Hachette, 2018), and Once A Stranger (Hachette, 2023). She is co-host of The Guardian's Book It In podcast, and the Margin Notes podcast alongside Yen Eriksen ...